From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 14:02:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3elhuhqv6k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399226546 24149 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2014 18:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 18:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Moreton , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 04 20:02:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh0jw-0008HZ-SQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 20:02:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54105 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh0jw-0006Dg-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 14:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh0jt-0006DZ-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 14:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh0js-00052G-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 14:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh0js-00052C-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 14:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh0js-0000QK-1D; Sun, 04 May 2014 14:02:12 -0400 X-Spook: AGT. AMME Watergate terrorism Capricorn ANZUS ASDIC AMW X-Ran: 5#zVqa#3`d{3x.lZl,e*{h{kxS=*ln:['oJDdF*?bxY7;~O\BCF4tll"~O|}lmXrvf|IUq X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 04 May 2014 19:17:31 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171687 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Indeed. Moreover, please don't require different versions for the > trunk and the branch, as it's a nuisance to have more than a single > version installed. Why would you need two versions? You can use automake 1.14 today even if the minimum is 1.11. I'm sure many people do. (I see I used automake 1.14 and autoconf 2.69 for 24.3.90.) > Also, nt/INSTALL and/or the packaged Autotools it points to need to > be updated once we upgrade to some newer version, so please explicitly > announce that here. I can't promise to remember, but failues with versions older than the minimum will be obvious, and only affect builds from bzr, not releases, so it doesn't seem like a big deal. You can update the ezwinports versions whenever you feel like, no need to wait for Emacs to require them. I don't foresee the minimum versions changing any time soon, but you never know.